Location

• Hybrid: Employees who are able to perform the essential functions of their jobs away from an Elevations location may do so with the expectation that they are onsite at least fifty percent of the time over a two-week pay period.

Summary/Objective:

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for establishing and leading enterprise-wide, cross-functional strategic information technology initiatives of high complexity including launching new products and services, large-scale application development, systems integration, business process optimization projects, operational efficiency improvements, and infrastructure upgrades and deployments. This individual utilizes in-depth knowledge and experience in the application of project management frameworks including waterfall, scrum, Kanban, etc. and can adapt practices to the situation. The Senior Project Manager provides direction and coaching to delivery team members to improve project management processes at Elevations CU and to ensure projects are delivered on time and meet or exceed leadership expectations.
Essential Functions include:

• Serve as primary contact and trusted advisor for organizational product owners in managing and delivering projects on-time and on-budget.
• Establish key stakeholder requirements and project objectives. Work with delivery teams and stakeholders to ensure vision, roadmap, and personas are well-defined and understood.
• Responsible for the successful estimation, planning, execution, and implementation of projects and programs including identification and management of deliverables, dependencies, risks, financials, and timeline with stakeholders and third-party vendors.
• Manage changes to project scope, schedule and budget using appropriate techniques and tools.
• Work with organizational product owners to complete refinement and manage the product backlog. Fully understand the content and priorities of the backlog.
• Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs.
• Manage subcontractors and third-party vendors according to defined scope and statement of work.
• Support resource and capacity management to ensure effective resource utilization across teams.
• Responsible for developing and providing relevant metrics to help the delivery team see how they are doing and report team progress as part of the organizational project portfolio.
• Accountable for communicating and reporting on project and project status on a regular basis through a formally defined and agreed upon process of gates, stages or phases. Customize communication approach based on technical level of project stakeholders as necessary.
• Work creatively and analytically to problem-solve demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
• Provide input to EPMO in improving project management and Agile processes.
• Builds mutual trust and encourages respect and cooperation among team members.
• Improve team performance by building team cohesiveness, leading, mentoring, training, and motivating in order to facilitate cooperation, ensure project efficiency, and boost morale.
• Train, mentor, and coach others in the use of project management. Waterfall and Agile/scrum tools and techniques.
• Demonstrate learning agility by continuing to develop skillset and grow professionally by learning new tools and techniques.

Reports to:

Director Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO)
Manages:

This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities, but does serve as a coach and mentor for other positions in the organization
Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree
• 6+ years as Project Manager managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience delivering under multiple project management frameworks including Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe
• Experience planning and executing business and IT Projects through the full software development lifecycle
• Impeccable attention to detail and highly organized
• Excellent communication skills, collaborative, solution-oriented, and ability to foster effective working relationships with internal and external parties
• Capacity to embrace change and quickly adapt to new situations, changes in direction, and altering priorities

Preferred Education and Experience:

• PMP certification
• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner certification
• CSM, CSPO or related certification
• Experience functioning in a Scrum Master capacity
• Experience supporting information technology (IT) teams with infrastructure, networking, information security, core and, full stack development projects.

Work Environment:

Elevations uses multi-factor authentication to keep our data safe. As such, a personal smartphone is a requirement for employment with us. This job operates in an office setting and routinely uses standard office equipment.
Physical Requirements:

Sitting frequently, walking occasionally, use of hands frequently, hearing constantly, talking frequently, exerting up to 10 lbs of force occasionally to lift, carry, push, pull, or move objects.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

Regular, Full-time, Normal business hours
Classification:

Exempt
Compensation Information:

The person hired into this position will likely earn between $105,376.46 and $140,000 plus annual bonus.

Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted hiring range based on factors such as relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, licensure requirements and/or skill level, and will be finalized at the time of offer.
Anticipated Application Window:

This role is anticipated to close within 35 days from the date of posting. However, if the position has not been filled, Elevations may keep the application period open longer.
Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.